Climate Change Ecology
- Impacts of multiple environmental stressors on organisms: How
multiple climate change variables jointly affect species performance and
trophic interactions?
- Integrating biological responses to temperature warming across
levels of biological organization: How can we scale up from changes in
individuals’ traits and species interactions to predict population
dynamics and community structure?
- Effects of environmental variations and extremes on biological
responses: What are the importance of variations and extremes vs. means
in determining species performance and fitness consequences?
- Novel interactions and trophic mismatches: How climate-driven
phenological/geographical shifts and the resulting temporal/spatial
synchrony/asynchrony alter species interactions?
- Chemical ecology under climate change: How climate change affects
the chemical communications among plants, herbivores, and predators and
in turn their trophic interactions?
- The role of phenotypic plasticity in buffering short-term and
long-term environmental changes: Will short-term acclimation facilitate
or impede long-term adaptation?